Name: Nurhan
Surname: Davutyan
Title: Professor and Head
Dept. of Int’l Trade and Finance, Kadir Has University
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: [email protected], [email protected]
: http://activity.khas.edu.tr/cv_program/cv.aspx?lang=en&ID=803
: (+90) 212 533 65 32 Ext: 1617, Mobile: (+90) 555 339 05 31
: (+90) 212 533 65 15
: Kadir Has Universitesi, İİSBF
Cibali Kampüsü, 34083, İstanbul, Turkey
EDUCATION:
PhD : University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) 1983.
MSc : Bogazici University 1978
BA
: Bogazici University 1976
RESEARCH AREAS: Applied Econometrics, Data Envelopment Analysis, Finance.
COURSES TAUGHT: Introductory Economics, Managerial Economics,
Probability&Statistics, Management Science, Corporate Finance,
International Economics, Econometrics, Money&Banking,
Operations Research.
HONORS & AWARDS: Fellow, Economic Research Forum (ERF), December 2004.
http://www.erf.org.eg/
CONSULTANCY: “Exchange Rate Policies for a Small Open Capital Surplus Economy”
With Yusuf H. Mohammad and John Pippenger 1987-1989
University of Kuwait/Kuwaiti Institute for Scientific Research
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: UCSB, Michigan Tech University, Cankaya
University, Marmara University.
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PAPERS UNDER REVIEW:
“Competitiveness in Turksh Banking: 2002-2011” with Canan Yildirim, submitted to
European Journal of Finance
“Risk-Adjusted Mortality, Varieties of Congestion and Patient Satisfaction in Turkish
Provincial General Hospitals” with Murat Birsel and Menderes Tarcan, submitted to DEA
Journal (second revision).
PUBLICATIONS:
“External Returns to Education in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Approach”, with Ozan
Bakis, Haluk Levent and Sezgin Polat, Middle East Development Journal
http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S179381201350017X
"Hospital Efficiency with Mortality as Undesirable Output: the Turkish Case," with Murat
Bilsel, (forthcoming) Annals of Operations Research. SCI
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-011-0951-y
“Social Returns to Education in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Approach”, with Ozan Bakis,
Haluk Levent and Sezgin Polat,in Daniel S. Beckett (Ed) Secondary Education in the 21st
Century, pp: 101-119 , Nova Publishers, (2011).
“Sectoral Human Capital Spillovers: Evidence from Turkey”, with Ozan Bakis, Haluk Levent
and Sezgin Polat, Iktisat, Isletme ve Finans, 26(1):9-20, (Jan 2011). SSCI.
“Transporting Turkish Examtakers: A New Use for an Old Model” with Mert C. Demir; in
Alan T. Molnar (Ed.) Economic Forecasting, pp: 249-262 , Nova Publishers, (2010).
“Assessing The Efficiency of Turkish Secondary Education: Heterogeneity, Centralization,
And Scale Diseconomies”, with Mert C. Demir and Sezgin Polat, Socio-Economic Planning
Sciences, 44(1): 35-44, (Jan 2010).
“Estimating the Size of Turkey’s Informal Sector: An Expenditure Based Approach”, Journal
of Economic Policy Reform, 11(4): 261-271, (December 2008). SSCI.
“Assessing the Accuracy of Official Hotel Ratings at Antalya “, Int’l Journal of Tourism
Research 9(1): 51-57. (Jan-Feb. 2007).
“A Study on the Debt- Default Behavior of Turkish Micro and Small Enterprises”, in Selected
Papers from the ERF 13’ th Annual Conference in Kuwait, ERF Publications, pp335-358.
(December 2006).
“Measuring Audit Risk by Data Envelopment Analysis”, with L. Kavut, ISE Review 9(33):
85-106. (July 2006).
“An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis to the Evaluation of Audit Risk”, with L.
Kavut, Abacus 41(3): 290-306 (October 2005). SSCI.
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“Probability Theory and the Age of Enlightenment” in Turkish, with A. Ozluk, Toplumsal
Tarih, Issue 142: 94:99 (October 2005).
“Efficiency Enhancement in the Tourism Sector: A Turkish Example”, Empirical Economics
Letters, 2(2): 99-102 (March 2003).
“A Note on Using the Hypergeometric Distribution for Population Census” in Turkish, MU
IIBF Journal, 14(2): 99-101 (August 1998).
“A Note on the Bid-Ask Spread for Dollars in Kuwait:1984-1988”, Applied Economics Letters,
4 (11): 715-718 (November 1997). SSCI.
"The Operations of the Bank of England 1890-1908: A Dynamic Probit Approach", with W.
Parke; Journal of Money Credit and Banking; 27(4): 105-113 (November 1995). SSCI.
"Bank Failures as Poisson Variates: A Reappraisal" in A.F. Cottrell, M.S. Lawlor and J.H Wood
eds. Bank Failures: Causes, Consequences and Cures; Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp: 199-211
(October 1995).
"Long Waves Prior to 1790: A Modest Contribution to the Study of Long Waves"; With
Dassbach, Dong and Fay; Review; 18 (2) :305- 325. (Spring 1995).
"Risk Sensitive Stabilization Policies in Commodity Markets", with J.K. Sengupta; Economic
Modeling; 11: 375-384 (Fall 1994). SSCI.
"A Novel Way of Modeling Official Intervention: The Case of Japan"; Journal of Economics;
20(1): 1-6 (Spring 1994).
"A Call to Arms or a Fox Cries Wolf", with T. Merz and P. Joyce; Journal of Economic
Perspectives; 8(1): 200-201 (Winter 1994). SSCI.
"Cyclicality in Metal Prices" with M. Roberts; Resources Policy; 20(1): 49-57 (1994). SSCI.
"Excess Returns and Official Intervention: Some Cross Country Evidence"; Applied Economics,
26(1): 35-40 (January 1994). SSCI.
"Testing Purchasing Power Parity: Some Evidence of the Effects of Transaction Costs", with J.
Pippenger; Econometric Reviews, 9(2): 211-240 (1990). SSCI.
"Explaining Innovations: A Technical Note"; De Economist, 137(4): 493-498 (December 1989).
"Bank Failures as Poisson Variates"; Economics Letters, 29: 333-338 (July 1989). SSCI.
"Excess Returns and Official Intervention: Canada 1950-1958"; with J. Pippenger; Economic
Inquiry, 27(3): 489-500 (July 1989). SSCI.
"Central Bank Intervention with Sample Selection: Japan 1977-79" , Economics Letters 29:
167-171 ( March 1989). SSCI.
"The Impact of Price Stabilization on Producers' Revenue"; in O. Güvenen (ed.), International
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Commodity Market Models and Policy Analysis; Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp: 53-61
(December 1988).
"PPP Did Not Collapse During the 70's", with J. Pippenger; American Economic Review, 75(5):
1151-1158 ( December 1985). SSCI.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP: American Economic Association, OR-MS
HOBBIES: Movies, History, Swimming